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Example sentences for: rightful

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Keyes filed papers earlier this year demanding that Kansas return portions of the state to the rightful ownership of the Republic of Texas.
The Natives, rightful owners of the land, are immutable, their pithy pidginisms ("Man builds great boats of iron, but the sea is stronger") deserving of the utmost reverence ("You must remember what he said.
Influential blacks from around the country advised him to quit the race and leave the seat to the man many of them viewed as its rightful heir.
One doesn't wish to deny anyone his rightful share of grandiloquence, but there is a hazard here.
The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the grounds that as “words” they are far more frequent than many of the “legitimate” words, like elytron, greave, or mithridatism . That might be justifiable if there were accurate frequency information available.